Erftstadt

Erftstadt is a toun locatit aboot 20 km sooth-wast o Cologne in the Rhein-Erft-Kreis, in the state o North Rhine-Westphalie, Germany. The name o the toun derives frae the river that flowes throu it, the Erft.

Carl Schurz, a German revolutionar, American statesman an reformer, an Union Airmy General in the American Ceevil War wis born in Erftstadt-Liblar on 2 Mairch 1829 as wis Joseph Kentenich, a Catholic priest o the Pallottine order an foonder o the Schoenstatt Muivement on 16 November 1885. He is remembered as a thinker, theologian, an eddicationalist.